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Chapter 4: Getting in the Urban Rangers...
The long day drifted into night as the three Ed's were in Eddy's room. His disco ball was spinning above them and some Barry White music was playing softly on the record player on top of his dresser. Eddy sat in a comfy yellow couch, while Ed and Edd sat on Eddy's purple satin bed. Eddy started mumbling to himself angerily, while Ed started looking at a magazine. Edd sat uncomfortably at the edge of the bed and waited for him to say something.
"I can't believe he left us!" Eddy said.
"Well, you were kind of mean to him. Perhaps if you apoligise"
"Forget it! We gotta find some way to get to him! I mean, what does a little tyke like him would like and spend a quarter on"
"Now Eddy... don't you think you're getting a little out of hand here"
"No! Come on brainiac, think!"
Eddy sat up in the chair and put his hand on his chin and started thinking hardly. After a few moments of silence, Eddy jumped up in his chair and started smiling.
"I got it! I know what'll make him tick..." Eddy said excitedly.
"Oh boy..." Edd added.
"Pickle!"
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A candle was litted dimly up in Goten's room as he sat on a raggedy old bed with a black book that he was writeing in. It looked like a journal. He started sobbing quietly as he was writing the words with a feathered pen. He stopped and wiped his nose with his sleeve.
He continued writing as the candle flickered in the background. Everything was silent in the house, not even a mouse was stirred.
"...Today was fun," Goten said to himself, while writing in the book," I met some new friends here in America. They seem really nice and friendly, and some were pretty anxious to know who I was. I really like that Rolf person. He seemed to know me better than the rest of the kids. And it seems that I'm the smallest kid in the Cul-De-Sac"
"Anyways... I hope you are doing alright Mom and Dad. I really miss you guys alot. A-and I hope t-that you... will love me back as I do you..."
After he said that, he broke down crying and put his head on his sleeves and just cried himself to sleep.
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The next morning wasen't much of a good one. The sun was hidden by some over clouds in the grey sky. Lightning flashed down on the Cul-De-Sac and it breifly flashed on the dark streets. Everyone was inside of thier own sheltered homes, all except for one, Rolf.
Goten yawned from inside his run down house and looked out the prevervial window as he sat on the windowseal and looked out onto the dark day. He noticed Rolf was wearing a strange blue uniform with alot of badges on it and a hat on top of his blue hair.
This struck Goten's curiousity as he watched Rolf with awe as another flash of lightning streaked the sobern skies. Rolf was carrying big crates from point A to point B of his yard. Goten yawned once more and looked down at his naked body and gasped. He jumped down off the windowseal and put on his little tunic he had worn the day before.
Once he had gotten dressed, he walked to his rotten door and opened it up to the world, as he stepped outside on the wooden poarch. He slowly stepped off the poarch and walked over to his neighbors yard and stood up to him. Rolf had been working so fast, he didn't see little Goten and stumbled over his small body and tripped along with the crate on his back crashing to the ground.
"Ah," Rolf sighed, "Sorry, I didn't see you there Vege-Goten"
"Oof...," Goten breathed while getting up slowly, "That's okay."
He had gotten off the dirt ground and dusted himself off with his small hands and he looked up back at Rolf and smiled. Rolf only smiled back at his appearence and just laughed a little.
"Hey Rolf?" Goten asked.
"What is it Vege-Goten"
"Where did you get that cool uniform"
"Ooh! So you like it? You have to be an urban ranger to get one of these Vege-Goten"
"Um," Goten added, "How do I join"
"It's simple. All you have to do is earn one badge and then you'll become an urban ranger. But first, you must start out as a wee-roach"
"Wee-Roach"
"Hah hah! Of course we'll have to do this when it isn't raining. Come! Let Rolf feast with Vege-Goten over our new wee-roach"
"Um...sure."
Later on during the day, the rain had finally stopped and some vigments of light shone through the grey clouds as the kids finally came out from thier suburban homes and on to the street. Everyone seemed glad that it had finally stopped raining so they could get some exercise. Rolf and Goten had finally came out of his house and on to the street with the other kids. There was no sign of Ed, Edd, and Eddy yet.
"Jonny. Jimmy, come get your uniforms on as we got something to do." Rolf said outloud.
"Oh great, more 'Urban loser' buisness?" Kevin said laughing.
"Why do you keep mocking us?" Rolf said sternly.
"I'll be back in a minute Rolf!" Jimmy said walking off.
"Yeah, me too!" Jonny said running off with Plank.
"So, have you seen Dork, Dork, and Dorky around kid?" Keven asked.
"My name is Goten... But, um...No I haven't yet"
"Oh, don't worry. They'll be here before you know it"
"...This scam will never fail!" Eddy's voice sprang out from the distance.
"What did I tell ya?" Keven added.
Eddy was seen to be watching Ed and Edd building a little wooden post with a sign on it that said "Talk to the Ed's. Only 25 Cents." Everyone just rolled their eyes when they saw them, and just walked away.
Finally Rolf took Goten to his backyard and suddenly Jonny and Jimmy came running up to catch up to the two. They both went in a line and did their Urban Ranger salute and stood still. Goten looked over to them and quickly rushed to copy their moves. Rolf only smiled and held out a red nunarose and put it around Goten's neck.
Goten blinked in confusion and then smiled proudly. Jimmy and Jonny looked at each other then went back to an upfront position. Rolf took a step back and then looked at the three with a little smile. He cleared his throat and motioned for the three to at ease. They all eased up and relaxed in their own positions.
"It seems we have a new Wee-Roach here in the Urban Rangers." Rolf said outloud.
"Yaah!" Both boys cheered out.
Goten put his hand behind his head and started rubbing it and blushed slightly. he then went back to normal and looked at Rolf to see what he had to do. All of a sudden Eddy sprang up in the middle of thier meeting and looked at Goten with confusion.
"Hey Tyke? What are you doing with these morons?" Eddy asked meanly.
"What! How dare you just barge in on us greedy Eddy!" Rolf shouted out.
Eddy tried to grab Goten to pull him out of the program and put his hand on his arm. Goten's eyes lit up with fire and Goten violently grabbed Eddy's hand and left him in shock. He lifted him up with no problem and threw him against the wall of Rolf's house. Eddy fell to the ground and looked up with a trickle of blood running down his mouth and bruises all over his face.
"No Eddy," Goten said angerily, "I'm tired of you trying to get to me!"
Jonny and Rolf both looked at him in shock then they just started to clap with cheer. Rolf just laughed and looked back to serious to Goten.
"Alright then, as I was saying. We have a new person and you know the rules. Tell him Jimmy." Rolf said.
"Fellow Wee-Roaches must obtain a badge in order to become an Urban Ranger." Jimmy said.
"Okay now first is the tree cutting badge. Whoever cuts down the tree you see behind me gets the badge. Got it?"
All three nodded and looked serious. Rolf handed out three hatchets and gave it to Jonny and Jimmy, but Goten didn't seem to want it. Rolf onlny noded his head and let him go to his individual tree. Rolf signaled out to go and Jonny and Jimmy decided to start without anything stopping them.
Goten only inspected the tree and smiled. He put his fist on the tree and kept it there. He brought his fist back and softly punched the tree and nothing seemed to happen. Suddenly the tree made a loud noise and it slowly fell over and hit the ground.
The four stopped and looked at him in shock. Goten looked back confused to Rolf.
"You told me to cut down this tree, right?" Goten asked innocently.
"...You are very strong Vege-Goten! Okay badge for you." Rolf added.
"What," Eddy screamed, "How come he got a badge and I didn't!"
At that moment, Goten became an Urban Ranger in less than 30 seconds. But boy oh boy was Eddy infuriated!